And I am sure (though not one hundred percent) both girls are named before that scene, when they are having breakfast.
World war z characters movie#
Rachel was named in the movie when Karin is attempting to get her daughter to sit in her seat. Moreover, in the case of World War Z, when not simply providing a kind of inconsequential background noise of dialogues (pancakes, the quiz game in the traffic jam), most of the two girls' lines are of the "Daddy, Daddy!" variety - geared towards emphasising the gravity and motives of the male protagonist's actions. There are exceptions - Harry Potter, for example - but they actually support the argument that, shamefully, kids' movies actually tend to present a better gender balance than their more grown-up equivalents. Most child roles in films are simply cutesy window dressing or plot cyphers for the adult characters (as with World War Z). The fact that adult female characters are trivialised (or infantilised) by only ever being allowed to discuss men is not going to be offset by having two little girls discussing pancakes. The whole point of the test is to assess cinema's representation of women as interesting, complex characters - the key word here is "women", adult women. I think you have to discount child characters. Gerry tells a young boy to protect "the ladies" (including Karin, an adult woman) and calls him "tough guy," in contrast to calling his own daughter a baby and (after she protested she wasn't a baby) a "beautiful" small adult. Gerry's wife and children are used as his character motivation. Karin has to be rescued from an attempted rape.
His competence as a parent is shown as natural for someone with military competence, and vice versa. Excepting maybe that kiss on the head.īrad Pitt's character is a house-husband and it is not denigrated or played for laughs. Segen is a female soldier and is portrayed in a non-sexualized, competent, completely standard movie soldier way.
World war z characters serial#
The negative aspects of nature are personified as Mother Nature, a serial killer "bitch." Some detailed asides which have to do with gender portrayals in the movie, but don't affect the Bechdel rating: Karin also plays a guessing game with her daughters and tells Rachel that Rachel's grandmother is British. No named adult women talk to each other in the movie, but the daughters speak to each other very briefly in small, non-plot relevant scenes. The two other named female characters are Gerry's two young daughters Rachel and Constance. The named women are Karin (Gerry's wife) and Segen, a soldier.